So, I'm not a cat person.... at all.... in fact - I would go as far as to say I rather dislike them. Long story short, we've ended up in a weird situation whereby we're inheriting a cat - however lucky for my wife and I (she's not a cat fan either) it's just about the sweetest/friendliest cat i've ever met, so this turned out to be not such a bad thing and we're both looking forward to it.
The fun stuff - I am a big time neat freak and I am remarkably sensitive to foul scents and as we all know - cat waste is particularly gnarly stuff. In college, a friend of mine had a "Littermaid" automatic litter box that basically did all of the dirty work for you, and raked the cat waste into a sealed container 15 minutes after the cat did it's business (it had a motion sensor). I recall this entirely solving the cat odor issue(s) and figured I better pop for one of these bad boys prior to kitty time, which is in about a week.
After doing a little research online - it looks like they range in price from $90 - $400, with most models in the $100-150 ballpark. As with most things of this nature a good portion of the people reviewing them online love them, a good portion think they're ok, and then a huge portion of them go into tremendous detail extolling what a *** their model is all go into grave detail regarding their horror story.
Anyone have an automated litter box? If so, what model and what are your thoughts?
The fun stuff - I am a big time neat freak and I am remarkably sensitive to foul scents and as we all know - cat waste is particularly gnarly stuff. In college, a friend of mine had a "Littermaid" automatic litter box that basically did all of the dirty work for you, and raked the cat waste into a sealed container 15 minutes after the cat did it's business (it had a motion sensor). I recall this entirely solving the cat odor issue(s) and figured I better pop for one of these bad boys prior to kitty time, which is in about a week.
After doing a little research online - it looks like they range in price from $90 - $400, with most models in the $100-150 ballpark. As with most things of this nature a good portion of the people reviewing them online love them, a good portion think they're ok, and then a huge portion of them go into tremendous detail extolling what a *** their model is all go into grave detail regarding their horror story.
Anyone have an automated litter box? If so, what model and what are your thoughts?